
The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel
Stephen Hancock(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 11. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
214 pages
978-0-415-86949-2 (ISBN)
Description
This study follows the aesthetic of the sublime from Burke and Kant, through Wordsworth and the Shelleys, into Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy. Exploring the continuities between the romantic and Victorian periods that have so often been rather read as differences, the book demonstrates that the sublime mode enables the transition from a paradigm of overwhelming power exemplified by the body of the king to the pervasive power of surveillance utilized by the rising middle classes. While the domestic woman connected with the rise of the middle class is normally seen as beautiful, the book contends that the moral authority given to this icon of depth and interiority is actually sublime. The binary of the beautiful and the sublime seeks to contain the sublimity of womanhood by insisting on sublimity's masculine character. This is the book's most important claim: rather than exemplifying masculine strength, the sublime marks the transition to a system of power gendered as feminine and yet masks that transition because it fears the power it ostensibly accords to the feminine. This aesthetic is both an inheritance the Victorians receive from their romantic predecessors, and, more importantly, a broad historical phenomenon that questions the artificial boundaries between romantic and Victorian.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung
1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
321 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-86949-2 (9780415869492)
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Stephen Hancock is a highly experienced cyber security consultant and auditor. He has been a PCI Qualified Security Assessor for more than ten years. He has advised on the PCI DSS and conducted assessments for clients all over the world, ranging from multinational retailers to start-up fintech organisations and payment service providers. Stephen has been involved in developing and delivering training courses for the PCI DSS and ISO 27001, and holds a number of information security qualifications.
Content
Chapter 1 Moral Authority and the Sublime, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 2 "That Huge Fermenting Mass", Stephen Hancock; Chapter 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley's Sublime Woman and the Divisible Sublime, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 4 The Sublime Woman and the Mature Middle-Class Man in Middlemarch, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 5 Fearing Their Bodies, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 6 How Little is Dorrit?, Stephen Hancock; Chapter 7 Married to a Job, Stephen Hancock;